The 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn, hosted at OlyBet’s flagship home of Olympic Park Casino and the adjoining Hilton Tallinn Parks, boasts a massive schedule of 52 events, including 12 events where players can earn a WSOP Circuit Ring. Friday’s action kicked off on the casino floor, and the room was packed with action, with 274 entries adding €81,377 to the prize pool on Day 1a of Event #1: €350 Mini Main Event.
However, before that, a freebuy satellite took place which boasted a seven-seat guarantee to the Mini Main Event. Due to both the large field and the rebuys and add-ons, a whopping 18 seats were awarded with 19th place also earning more than half a seat in cash. Three women were among the players earning a seat into the Mini Main Event, including American Summer Westerbur, who traveled to Estonia specifically for the festival from her travels in Asia after experiencing an amazing vibe during last year’s WSOP Circuit Tallinn.
Read on to learn more about what happened on the opening day, with bigger action kicking off over the weekend.
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Keränen and Scheel Emerge as Chip Millionaires From €350 Mini Main Day 1a
The 2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn was off to an amazing start, with the casino floor packed before the action moved upstairs in the Hilton Tallinn Park convention rooms on Saturday. Day 1a of Event #1: €350 Mini Main Event attracted a banner field of 274 entries to create a €81,377 prize pool, with 41 players bagging chips into Sunday’s Day 2 already in the money in this three-day affair.
Finland’s Ville-Matti Keränen (1,367,000) and Corne Scheel (1,106,000) emerged as chip millionaires as they parlayed their 50,000 opening stack into seven-figure stacks to lead the way with two-time WSOP Circuit Tallinn champion Roope Tarmi from Finland in third with 709,000.
Saturday will feature both Day 1b at noon with a 30 minute clock, followed by the final opening flight in Day 1c with a faster 20-minute clock at 7 p.m. The action for both flights concludes after the field is trimmed down to just 15 percent.
Stay hydrated and prepare for a long day, as yesterday took approximately 12 hours from start to finish. Our team at poker.pro will be lightly covering all of the events today, but will be on the floor until players bag on Day 1b.
| Place | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Ville-Matti Keränen | Finland | 1,367,000 |
| 2 |  Corne Scheel | Netherlands | 1,106,000 |
| 3 | Roope Tarmi | Finland | 709,000 |
| 4 |  Vytautas Riskevicius | Lithuania | 655,000 |
| 5 | Roy Van Der Reijnst | Netherlands | 596,000 |
| 6 |  Frederico Alves Dos Santos | Brazil | 595,000 |
| 7 | Edvinas Tarasevicius | Lithuania | 569,000 |
| 8 |  Tomasz Kardas | Poland | 538,000 |
| 9 | Gabriel Wolszczak | Poland | 523,000 |
| 10 |  Rauno Kiviloo | Estonia | 522,000 |
| 11 |  Svetlana Aubakirova | Kazakhstan | 487,000 |
| 12 | Toni Vuolle | Finland | 438,000 |
| 13 | Johan Alen | Finland | 409,000 |
| 14 | Nico Kumpulainen | Finland | 409,000 |
| 15 | Ville-Tappio Mesiranta | Finland | 380,000 |
| 16 |  Vidar Assersen | Norway | 322,000 |
| 17 |  Oleksandr Tarashevskyi | Ukraine | 310,000 |
| 18 | Riku Oksanen | Finland | 305,000 |
| 19 | Nicolai Austad | Norway | 270,000 |
| 20 | Pavel Solodovnikov | Estonia | 244,000 |
| 21 |  Adrian Jimenez Ruano | Spain | 235,000 |
| 22 |  Andreas Brendholdt | Denmark | 232,000 |
| 23 |  Toni Ravnak | Serbia | 231,000 |
| 24 | Mikko Ylämäki | Finland | 227,000 |
| 25 | Siim Kabel | Estonia | 221,000 |
| 26 | Jarmo Salonen | Finland | 214,000 |
| 27 |  Janis Zablovskis | Latvia | 182,000 |
| 28 |  Maksim Jankovski | Russia | 161,000 |
| 29 | Egidijus Matonis | Lithuania | 153,000 |
| 30 |  Franco Spichtig | Switzerland | 129,000 |
| 31 | Petter Richardsen | Norway | 126,000 |
| 32 | Martin Mänd | Estonia | 116,000 |
| 33 | Keio Vardi | Estonia | 110,000 |
| 34 |  Dylan Snyder | England | 105,000 |
| 35 |  Matej Hojka | Czech Republic | 92,000 |
| 36 | Soile Lerviks | Finland | 91,000 |
| 37 | Alejandro Val | Spain | 87,000 |
| 38 |  Ruth Guper | Israel | 78,000 |
| 39 | Ralf Mikk | Estonia | 75,000 |
| 40 | Ricards Zelneronoks | Latvia | 67,000 |
| 41 | Andrius Mazeika | Lithuania | 35,000 |
2025 WSOP Circuit Tallinn Day 2 Schedule (Saturday, July 26)
Saturday’s schedule boasts the final two opening flights on the €350 Mini Main Event at 12 p.m. and 7 p.m. However, there is some buzz around another event starting early on Saturday at Noon in the €350 Open-face Chinese Pineapple with several players witnessed practicing their skills, including Scott “Pokerbrahs” Kenyon, Eva “Chic” Jirestrom, Lena Bjorn, and Siim Suviste.
A trophy will also be on the line in the one-day €200 NLH Progressive Bounty at 3 p.m., while the day concludes at least for tournaments with two €80 satellites to two different events with a €555 buy-in. Of course, cash games will be running nonstop at various stakes and games on what promises to be an epic day at Olympic Park Casino and Hilton Tallinn Park.
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Event #1: WSOPC €350 NLH Mini-Main Event Day 1b |
| 12:00 | Event #14: €350 Open-face Chinese Pineapple |
| 15:00 | Event #15: €200 NLH Progressive Bounty |
| 19:00 | Event #1: WSOPC €350 NLH Mini-Main Event Day 1c |
| 19:30 | Event #16: €80 Satellite to WSOPC €555 PLO4/PLO5 (5 Seats GTD) |
| 22:00 | Event #17: €80 Mega Satellite to WSOPC €555 NLH (10 Seats GTD) |
